Ian McColl (journalist)
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Ian McColl CBE (22 February 1915 – 21 June 2005), was a Scottish journalist, editor and Liberal Party politician.
Background
He was the eldest son of John McColl and Sarah Isabella (aka Morag) McPherson, of Glasgow and Bunessan, Isle of Mull. He was educated at Hillhead High School, Glasgow. He married, in 1968, Brenda McKean. They had one daughter. He served during the war, with the Royal Air Force, 1940–46 (despatches, 1945). He was with Air Crew, Coastal Command 202 Squadron.‘McCOLL, Ian’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U25403, accessed 29 Nov 2013]{{Cite web|url=https://mullfamilies.co.uk//getperson.php?personID=I22619&tree=MF|title = Login: MULL FAMILIES}}
Political career
In 1931 he joined the Liberal Party at the age of 16. In 1933 he was elected to the executive of the Scottish Liberal Federation. In 1938 he became Honorary Secretary of the Scottish Liberal Federation.The Times House of Commons, 1950 McColl twice stood as a Liberal party candidate for the United Kingdom Parliament; in the 1945 General Election at Dumfriesshire finishing third
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Electorate 47,983
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|party = National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)
|candidate = Niall Malcolm Stewart Macpherson
|votes = 16,465
|percentage = 47.4
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|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = D Dunwoodie
|votes = 12,388
|percentage = 35.7
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|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate = Fl-Off. Ian McColl
|votes = 5,850
|percentage = 16.9
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{{Election box majority|
|votes = 4,077
|percentage = 11.7
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and at the 1950 General Election at Greenock coming second.
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Electorate 48,792
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|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = Hector McNeil
|votes = 20,548
|percentage = 50.6
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|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate = Ian McColl
|votes = 11,638
|percentage = 28.7
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|party = Independent Labour
|candidate = J. S. Thomson
|votes = 6,458
|percentage = 15.9
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|party = Communist Party of Great Britain
|candidate = John Ross Campbell
|votes = 1,228
|percentage = 3.0
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{{Election box candidate
|party = Irish Anti-Partitionist
|candidate = O. Brown
|votes = 718
|percentage = 1.8
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{{Election box majority|
|votes = 8,910
|percentage = 21.9
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Media career
He joined the Scottish Daily Express as a cub reporter in 1933. He was Editor of the Scottish Daily Express from 1961 to 1971. He was Editor of the Daily Express from 1971 to 1974.{{cite web|title=Editors of the Daily Express|url=http://www.dailydrone.co.uk/express-editors.html|work=Daily Drone|accessdate=18 May 2012}} He was a Director of Express Newspapers Ltd, from 1971 to 1982. He was Chairman of Scottish Express Newspapers Ltd, from 1975 to 1982. He was a Member of the Press Council from 1975 to 1978. He was a Vice-President of the Newspaper Press Fund from 1981 to 2005. He was Chairman of the Media Division for the 1986 Commonwealth Games, Scotland from 1983 to 1986. He was honoured with the Bank of Scotland, Scottish Press Life Achievement Award, in 1993.
He was appointed a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1983.
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Category:Scottish male journalists
Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire